Enterprise model verification and validation: an approach

Abstract

This article presents a Verification and Validation approach which is used here in order to complete the classical tool box the industrial user may utilize in Enterprise Modeling and Integration domain. This approach, which has been defined independently from any application domain is based on several formal concepts and tools presented in this paper. These concepts are property concepts, property reference matrix, properties graphs, enterprise modeling domain ontology, conceptual graphs and formal reasoning mechanisms.

Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

“…In addition, the as-is BP can be used to match software reference models. The primary objectives of developing the as-is BP include: a) improving or redesigning the enterprise [24] [25] [26], b) enhancing the enterprise integration [27] [28] [29], c) providing the starting point for development of the architecture of necessary information systems [30], d) use in the requirements enumeration phase in the development of the information systems [31], and e) deployment as a knowledge repository of the enterprise [22].…”

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